Sovereignty isn’t a subject most business owners are familiar with. Which is why, truth be known, if such things were measured, which they’re invariably not, most businesses would be horrified to discover they’re not making a lot of profit from their clients.

In fact, because they’re willing to take on any client who is willing to pay, regardless of whether that client represents good business or not, plenty of business are not only making a loss on the resource-sucking, whinging, moaning, nightmare client with a mentality engineered to complain at every turn, it’s having a diabolical effect on the mental health of the owner and any staff concerned.

Now the principle of sovereignty has been firmly established, by way of demonstrating the boundaries of sovereignty in my business (and, in the process, giving a clear indication to you as to whether there’s a fit for any kind of business engagement between us) here’s the third and fourth mindsets I won’t work with…

… each bringing a moment of truth to us all.

3:  The Mind Not Willing To Think

Thinking is the highest function of which we’re capable, it’s not a subject taught in formal or adult education, and yet all of the great leaders throughout history – people who’ve disagreed on almost every point possible – agreed unanimously on one: that what you and I think about, we become.

Problem is, very few of us do think. Oh most of us think we think… but what we perceive to be thinking is, in fact, routinely habitual mental activity.

This great truth is what compelled George Bernard Shaw to state, “Two per cent of people think, three per cent think they think, and ninety five per cent would rather die than think”.

It’s an amusing quote, until the truth of it dawns on you.

The truth is, we’re not raised to think, we’re raised to obey and conform. We’re taught what to think, not how to. Your government – that which drives the formal education system – doesn’t want you thinking. Your religion doesn’t either. Neither wishes you to question what you’ve been taught to think and believe by these institutions of power. Society is purposefully engineered to nullify and dumb down humanity in the name of subservience and control.

Why do you think religions have enjoyed such longevity throughout the ages? It isn’t because they represent truth. It’s a remarkable strategy which grips humanity as much today as it has for several millennia: stupify the herd enough with fear and you control it.

Is it any wonder most adults will do anything but think? Is it any surprise the vast majority of our species will avoid thinking and, in fact, want to be told what to think and what to do? 

Think about it. We elect leaders, support governments and adopt religions, all of which require no independent thought, such is our reluctance to embrace our ability to think.

Know this: you cannot enter into a Coaching conversation – and to be clear, I’m talking about the true, genuine, authentic Coaching conversation with an appropriately trained, qualified and fit-for-purpose practitioner (in other words not the so-called ‘coaching’ peddled by the uninitiated or charlatans) – and not think.

And yes, it will seem like hard work at first, not because it’s hard work in and of itself, but because it’s a psychological ‘muscle’ that’s grossly underdeveloped.

This is why Henry Ford famously quipped; “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”

If we’re to work together, you’ll be challenged, consistently, to think. You’ll be challenged to think about what you’re thinking about, the root cause of what brings you to think this way – and the consequences of doing so. All in the name of consistently improving the quality of thinking you’re bringing to your business and personal life.

I can’t help you if you’re not willing to think into your results. I can’t help you if you’re not willing to spend just a few minutes a day reading the thought-provoking insight in my daily emails and blogs. And I can’t help you if you prioritise getting busy over your self-education.

How the mind is fed shapes the life that’s led, and the mind fed with searching, inquisitive questions and thought-inducing content is a mind engineered to create a life shaped by choice not chance.

4:  The Mind Not Willing To Act

Having said all of the above, bringing every-improving quality of thinking to your life is pointless until it transmutes into tangible, intelligent action.

Despite all I’ve discussed about the critical nature of qualitative thinking, the ultimate architect of your conditions and circumstances is what sponsors the habitual way of thinking and acting which calls them forth.

In other words, nothing changes until the unconscious beliefs responsible for the creation of your current conditions and circumstances change. 

You must act to attract your desired outcomes. You cannot attract the conditions and circumstances of your aspirations unless you act in accordance with them.

Anyone claiming any different has very little, if any, awareness of the unwavering assertion of the natural laws upon which the creative ability of your mind operates.

Remember this: act as if you are, and you draw it to you. What you act as if you are, you become.

If you’re not willing to act, we’ll explore the cause of that effect to end its grip on your consciousness… 

… but make no mistake, if you’re not willing to meet me halfway and put your all into digging deep to bring an end to what is sabotaging your success…

… because you’re far more attached to your current conditions and circumstances than you care to admit or perhaps even know…

…  we’ll not work well together.

And remember, regardless of whether we’re a fit of not, if you’re reading this series of articles you’re forming an understanding of what sovereignty is in your business, and what kind of character you’re willing to work with and who you’re not.

Your Client Avatars – both desired and undesired, is a vital important topic worthy of several articles in itself… however, you can start this process now by looking at the kind of individual you’d jump out of bed at disgusting o’clock to serve, and the kind you’d rather be dragged naked through a bramble bush while suffering from acute haemorrhoids than to serve.

Next up? Let’s bring this topic in for a landing with the final three mindsets.

Warmly,

Christian

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